Project Atral: The Riddle of Durendare

Did you see the red message about texture streaming pool on my latest screenshots? That's a performance problem and i'm currently trying to learn how to fix it.

Edit: FIXED!

Placed a lot more trees and bushes. Placed the tiny hermit hut on Dan's Dot. Worked on the vegetation performance. Next up: texture performance (decreasing resolution, decal ivy instead of texture ivy on the stables and riding hall).

I've worked on the criollo definitivo model. It will be the base for the ingame horses. I have to refine it a bit, then i can reduce the polygon count and texture it.

Despite horrible neck pain, i'm working on the foal model, which is supposed to be in the herd of horses on the island.

I've imported one of my horse models with a quickly made idle animation into UE4 to get a feeling of the animation system. The final models might look closer to the criollo mestizo though.

https://youtu.be/1ROgU2a5e38

Don't worry, the project is NOT canceled. I'm just making a pause to get some relaxation and because real life calls.

I will take a few days off from the work in the UE4 Editor. I'll focus on working on the player character model and modeling some new assets within Blender.

I've worked a little bit on optimization of the vegetation. Reduced the render distance of the grass. ChatGPT made me aware that using JPG textures isn't good, i should rather use TDA. Therefor i will exchange the JPG textures to TDA format.

I've added some interior to the stables. Everything of the stables and inside is modeled by myself.

Here's the first gameplay video of the Alpha Build 1.1! Enjoy it! There's not much to see yet in case of plot, but i'm working hard on it!

https://youtu.be/bVj_yqALYd0